Program Description

The specific objectives of the Master of Arts in Education with an option in Educational Psychology and an emphasis in Early Childhood Education (ECE) are:

1. To prepare students to assume leadership positions in early childhood care and education in a variety of educational, health and mental health-settings institutions concerned with children from the prenatal stage through age 8. Academic career choices of students selecting this emphasis typically include:
   1. Instructor of child development courses in community colleges.
   2. Parent educator in public adult education or in a variety of private settings.
   3. Specialist working with hospitalized children and in programs serving families with high-risk infants and young children.
   4. Coordinator of community program services for young children and their families.
   5. Lead teacher, supervisor or director of programs.
   6. Child advocate working in various social policy agencies.
2. To prepare students to enter doctoral programs in early childhood education with a view to teaching at the university level, conducting research in child development, planning and administering programs, or developing public policy.
3. To provide students with knowledge of child development, adult-child interaction, cultural and language diversity, and biological and environmental factors influencing families and their young children and community staff-family collaborations.

Admission Requirements

1. Have earned a baccalaureate degree from an accredited college or university.
2. Have been in good standing at the last institution attended.
3. Have at least a 2.5 GPA in the last 60 semester/90 quarter units attempted.
4. If cumulative undergraduate GPA is less than 3.0, score at or above the 50th percentile on one of the three sections of the aptitude test of the Graduate Record Examination (i.e., verbal, quantitative or analytical) or on the Miller Analogies Test (MAT). Applicants to the School Psychology Program are required to take the GRE or MAT.

IELTS Requirements

Listening	Reading	Writing	Speaking	Overall
6	6	6	6	6.5

Remarks:

Score reporting required.